Shortly before I joined a live Radio Biafra broadcast, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Clifford Iroanya the Coordinator of the Coordinators for the Indigenous People of Biafra. We touched on a variety of subjects, including the evil of the Buhari regime and what Biafra wants.
Included in the podcast:
What is IPOB?
History of Conflict
Who is Buhari?
Is Nigeria Muslim?
Biafrans consider themselves Israelites
Why Israel needs to help Biafra
Listen below to a clip of yesterday’s Radio Biafra interview.
From East to West, North to South the Biafran conflict is heating up globally. The Biafran war, fought between Nigeria and Biafra from the years 1967-1970 has been recorded as the most brutal civil war any black Nation has ever witnessed. With the help of the British, innocent young people, mostly women and children numbering close to 6 million lost their lives.
The leadership the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has infused a new spirit into the struggle for self-determination.This spirit has awoken from its slumber the drive to exhibit the fundamental human right under the rule of law to protest the Buhari lead Administration. This Nigerian government has unleashed terror on the innocent citizens who are seeking a better life and good governance for their children and future generation.
Scores have been killed by the Department of State Security (DSS), including those shot by the combination of both military and police personnel. Despite Amnesty International being aware of these heinous crimes, the United Nations lead by Ban Ki-Moon and world leaders have kept quiet. Nigerian security forces continue to kill Biafrans in secret, attacking street vendors who sell newspapers with anything concerning Biafra. The Buhari led government has even destroyed Coca-cola customized products and their warehouses that were made especially for Biafra awareness.
Is Nigeria meant to be democratic or an autocracy?
The Nigerian state is presently suffering from governmental incompetence, human rights abuses, and a lack of justice for the ordinary man. Ironically the government’s policies have backfired. Buhari believes the killing of unarmed innocent civilians will subdue the struggle. Yet by attacking and jailing Nnamdi Kanu they have ended up making him the most influential personality of the century. The struggle for self-determination of the people of Biafra has now become a global one.
The crux of the issue now is convincing those who think the Biafran protests are merely a mirage that they should wake up from and face the new reality that there is no going back. The message to the world must be clear that the level of insecurity that Nigerian government operates in, is total. We don’t want what happened in 1967-1970 to happen again. Despite the Biafran willingness to lead a peaceful struggle, how long shall we fold our arms and watch our citizen been killed in cold blood?
“I will lead a 500,000000 Million man march that will crack Nigeria globally!” Those were the words of the brave Biafraian and we are getting close to it. Both local and International media, organizations, world leaders are now getting up to see the injustice that has been meted out to the people of Biafra by the central authorities in Buhari’s so called Nigeria.
Considering where we began, much has been achieved and yet more needs to be done. There is no going back on Biafran independence. There is a deep lack of credibility in Nigeria concerning the independence of the judiciary system. This has added to the ordinary citizen lacking any confidence in all aspects of the government’s relationship with the broader society. We have all seen this in the ongoing case of Nnamdi Kanu the Leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra and the Nigerian government.
The Mohammed Buhari lead Administration has taken the whole pf Nigeria for granted and it is very imperative to remind him that he can’t eat his cake and have it also. It is not going to be like those days when he refused to appear before a tribunal on charges corruption.
We call on all well-meaning lovers of freedom especially the Israeli government to take a stand and look into the issue of Biafra and Nigeria’s Christians in order to help lead them to freedom from the oppression of the Islamic state of Mohammed Buhari.
Harry and I discuss the plight of Biafra and Pashtunistan as well as their linkage as Israelites in their war for freedom against a global neo-colonial military system.
Points covered:
Biafra Freedom
Pashtun Situation
British Created a System of Divide and Conflict
Israel needs to Lead Biafra and Pashtun to Freedom
Across the African continent, foreign powers came from both the East and West, drawing artificial boundaries and using their control to plunder and ravage traditional communities. Nowhere else in the Eastern Hemisphere did humanity witness such a concerted effort to destroy once thriving communities. From slavery (backed by both the Europeans and Arabs) to economic and political control, Africans were colonized in mind and body.
The current conflict in Biafra is a microcosm of a new sort of colonial struggle. The slow creeping takeover of Southern Nigeria by Islam is no longer slow. Nigeria and other countries like it, where an admixture of various peoples were smashed together by the colonial powers have become even more susceptible to an Islam supercharged in a mission to gain control of Nigeria’s Southern region, which is where much of its industry and oil are.
Victims of Fulani Raids
An example of this are the raids by Northern Fulani herdsman have grown more punitive and destructive. This past week on February 28th Fulani herdsman killed at least 300 people in Agatu. One survivor said, “As we speak, Odigbeho-Agatu has been razed. The massacre there today (Monday) had no equal because Odigbeho is one of the most important and well-populated villages in Agatu. Our people were caught napping because we relaxed when we heard what we considered the cheering news that the federal government has intervened. Unfortunately, the Fulanis knew we had relaxed and took advantage of us to unleash a terrible massacre on us. As we speak, corpses litter everywhere in the village. I have been trying to reach many of my family members without success. We feel terribly let down by the government that announced a joint security team. We have not seen the security men- be they policemen or military, as I speak.”
Essentially the central government offers the Biafra region protection, but never enough against the raiders. Both the central government and the Fulani are Muslim. Along with the growing violence the Free Biafra movement has been hit hard recently. Their leader Nnamdi Kanu is on trial for treason. Biafrans have been outraged as they fear and feel a return to the turmoil that marked the Biafran Civil War, where 3 million were killed or starved to death between the years of 1967-1970.
The military and police have taken to killing unarmed protesters as the situation becomes increasingly bloody.
What makes Biafra all the more crucial for the future of Sub-Sahara Africa is that it is made up of an overwhelming number of Igbo. The Igbo believe they are descended from Israel and self identify as Israelites. With this in mind It is not surprising that in the Biafran Civil War, Israel actually gave supplies and support to the region. The Nigerian dilemma essentially pits Islam, Christians, and the Igbo who have long struggled to reclaim their heritage from colonization against one another.
Biafra has become a battleground to learn whether Africa can prevent a continuance of colonial influence under the guise of a religious conflict or if it can rise and understand that much of the ideologies confronting one another were imported from those nations who forced both slavery and colonization on Africa. That goes for both Christian Europe and Islamic Middle East. The irony is that the Igbo, as they begin to decolonize their religion and culture, have exemplified far more indigenous behavior than their fellow Nigerians. This is what makes Biafra important. It is a region experiencing a return to its ancient Hebrew roots and should be supported in its desire and drive to do so.
There have always been those leaders who have argued for a Pan Africanism, as if Africa was ever pan or of one mold. It never has been. Such assumptions are reactions to the trauma of being subjugated by foreign powers. What is important to understand though, is that Africanism is more about a return to accepting the fact that the artificial constructs of a post colonial Africa has essentially committed Africans to constant struggle within their current boundaries.
A free Biafra would be a recognition that the boundaries are meaningless and should be exchanged for a return to what was before. This would go a long way to reconstructing Igboland to what it was before Europeans and Arabs uprooted it along with wreaking havoc across the rest of Africa. Biafra should serve as a test case for other areas of Africa.
